SBI Securities teams up with IBM to test blockchain for bond trading platform
Oct 24, 2016 04:19 am UTC| Digital Currency
SBI Securities, a unit of Japan-based global financial services company SBI Holdings, has collaborated with IBM to test the potential of blockchain technology for a new type of bond trading system and aims to make...
Visa launches Visa B2B Connect built on Chain’s blockchain technology
Oct 21, 2016 12:50 pm UTC| Digital Currency
Visa Inc. has announced a preview of its international Visa B2B Connect, a new platform that is being developed to provide financial institutions simple, fast and secure way to process B2B global payments, built on Chains...
EcoCoin blockchain project wins international energy hackathon 2016
Oct 21, 2016 12:05 pm UTC| Digital Currency
Blockchain project EcoCoin has won the Dutch international energy hackathon Hackenergy 2016 that was sponsored by ENGIE Nederland, Energy Academy Europe, the City and Province of Groningen and backed by Groningens IBM...
Blockchain and big data make inroads to China via IBM Bluemix
Oct 21, 2016 11:39 am UTC| Digital Currency
IBM has announced that it has partnered with 21Vianet Group, Inc., a leading Chinese carrier-neutral internet data center services provider, in order to make its cloud computing platform Bluemix available in China. As...
CognitiveScale launches Blockchain-with-a-Brain to deliver AI applications
Oct 21, 2016 09:21 am UTC| Digital Currency
CognitiveScale, theprovider of industry-specific machine intelligence software, has announced that it is using blockchain technology to its customer engagement and process intelligence products for healthcare, financial...
R3’s blockchain platform Corda to go open source
Oct 21, 2016 06:53 am UTC| Digital Currency
The Corda platform, developed by a group of over 70 of the worlds biggest financial institutions participating in the R3-led consortium, is making its code open-source, as reported by Reuters. The blockchain platform...
Chinese government explores blockchain technology, releases white paper
Oct 21, 2016 06:05 am UTC| Digital Currency
The Chinese government has released a white paper focused on blockchain technology in order to actively guide the development of the technology and its application in the country. CoinDesk reported that the release of...
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